Graduate Student Information

Prospective Graduate Students

Welcome to the Department of Chemistry! Please review our degree programs in Chemistry, our diverse areas of research, our cutting edge interdisciplinary research opportunities, our expansive research facilities, and our thesis advisors currently accepting new graduate students, and you'll find what you're looking for in a graduate program. Not only that, but the Seattle and the Puget Sound Region provide a beautiful setting for your studies at the University of Washington. If you need financial assistance to help you realize your dreams, financial support is available to graduate students in Chemistry. If you are serious about pursuing your graduate education with us, please review the admission requirements and application procedures.

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Graduate Program News


Final Examination - Dissertation Defense

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Congratulations to Michael White, who defended his Ph.D. work “Electronic Structure and Auger Interactions in Semiconductor Nanocrystals” on December 16. More...

UW team wins iGEM grand prize

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The Department of Chemistry congratulates Chemistry graduate student Justin Siegel and undergraduate Chemistry and Biochemistry majors Casey Ager, Juhye An, Sydney Gordon, Elaine Lai, Seth Sagulo, Liz Stanley, Sarah Wolf, and Lei Zhang for a remarkable accomplishment. These students and 14 others were members of the UW team that won the Grand Prize in the sixth annual International Genetically Engineered Machine World Championship Competition (iGEM). More...

Final Examination - Dissertation Defense

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Congratulations to Ratika Krishnamurty, who defended her Ph.D. work “Chemical Probes to Investigate Protein Kinase Function and Dynamics” on December 1. More...

Final Examination - Dissertation Defense

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Congratulations to Samuel Berweger, who defended his Ph.D. work "Plasmonic Antennas for Optical Nanocrystallography and Femtosecond Spatio-Temporal Control" on August 18. More...

Final Examination - Dissertation Defense

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Congratulations to Stephanie Benight, who defended her Ph.D. work “Nanoengineering of Soft Matter Interactions in Organic Electro-Optic Materials” on August 12. More...

Final Examination - Dissertation Defense

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Congratulations to Inna Goreshnik, who defended her Ph.D. work “Engineering of a Small Molecule-Regulated Switch for Studying Signaling Enzymes” on August 11. More...

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